The debate was chaired by Juanita Hincapie, with a panel of Julio Meyer, Laura Martinez, Nathania Engelhardt, and Randall Martinez.

Middlebury A in the Pan American English Division Final (c) Amanda Werner

The English language final was won by Middlebury A (Charlotte Massey, Nate Obbard) from Closing Opposition, opposing the motion “THS countries granting rights to nature”. In Opening Government was USAFA A (Samantha Potter, Ciera White), in Opening Opposition was UWI MONA B (Jonathan Atkins, Ronaldo Blake), and in Closing Government Morehouse A (Johnny Holloway, Noah Spicer).

The final was chaired by Bexley Brown, with a panel of Dan Lahav, Kiana Saint-Macary, Sebastian Dasso, and Vale Hernandez.

The English division top speaker was Charlotte Massey, with an average of 79.57

The Spanish division top speaker was Marcela Gómez Valdés, with an average of 78.71.

R3:
THS state attempts to help their citizens find and sustain love (e.g. subsidizing subscriptions to matching agencies such as match.com, significant funding for research on what makes a relationship last, creating courses on how to woo and keep a spouse)

R4:
THBT major awards of meritocratic distinction (e.g. the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, Oscars, etc) should include a moral clause* *a provision that allows the honoree to receive, or hold, the award only in the case they meet a behavioral standard set by the awarding panel.

R5:Info Slide: For the purposes of this debate, a charter city is where a developing country grants a long term lease on a city to a developed country. The developed country receives a siginificant autonomy to govern the city for the time of the lease.

THBT developing countries should pursue the establishment of charter cities